Retrons, msDNA, and the bacterial genome

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 491-499

  Lampson, B C ^a   Inouye, M ^b   Inouye, S ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SATELLITE DNA;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 23844509486     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084982     Document Type: Review

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